CVLBA Annual Meeting

In the context of the long-term partnership between the MRCC and the SAP AG, the Centers for Very Large Business Applications in Magdeburg and Munich presented their current research results in Walldorf on January 29th, 2014. On this occasion, the researchers received valuable feedback from both scientific and practical perspectives from the advisory council of the CVLBA and senior SAP managers.

The following quotes give a deeper look at the benefit of the meeting:

“This year’s Annual VLBA Meeting had the motto: “Rigour meets Relevance”! Along with the Ph.D. students, their supervisors and the representatives of the academic board an impressive number of SAP professionals discussed the research projects and progress. The importance of all these new and innovative topics in IS research led to some interesting discussions between academic and practical world. Together with Dr. Bernd Welz (SAP Executive Vice President, Global Head of Solution and Knowledge Packaging) and Ann Rosenberg (Head of SAP Global University Alliances) the VLBA teams of Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg and Technische Universität München discussed a more integrative approach of VLBA research with highly relevant SAP topics. Overall, the discussions with all participants may have been tough, but they were also congenial and constructive throughout, with each party understanding the other views and the benefits of this collaboration.”

“I am impressed and feel inspired by the great scientific research I have seen … great work that will improve the way how large and complex systems with high availability can be provided. The event also clearly showed how fruitful collaboration between research and practitioners at SAP is – a path where we still can go one step ahead by establishing clear topic sponsorship from SAP management to provide the researchers with even better access to the experts in our company.”

Dr. Oliver Kroneisen, Vice President COO LoB Finance, SAP AG

The invited guests included, amongst others:

Name

Organization

Prof. Dr. Klaus Turowski

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

Prof. Dr. Gerhard Schwabe

Universität Zürich

Dr. Bernd Welz

SAP AG, Executive Vice President, Solution & Knowledge Packaging

Ann Rosenberg

SAP AG, Head of Global University Alliances

Dr. Michael Nuernberg

SAP AG, SAKP Global University Alliances

Dr. Oliver Kroneisen

SAP AG, Chief Project Expert and Vice President

Niraj Singh

SAP AG, GC University Alliances EMEA – Marketing

Carsten Becker

SAP AG, Demand Generation D&T and Analytics

Dr. Kristof Schneider

SAP AG, SAKP Global University Alliances

Daniel von Dungen

SAP AG, SAKP Global University Alliances

Ralf Mueller

SAP AG, GRC Operations & GRC Corporate Functions

Fabian Mueller

SAP AG, GRC Risk Management Governance & Operations

Stefan Ettrich

SAP AG, IT ETA

Holger Gebert

SAP AG, GS oD Germany Team 1

Thomas Mattern

SAP AG, SAKP Business Service & Quality Management

Stefan Weidner

Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg

The following presentations were scheduled:

Time

Topic

Presenter

08:30

Welcome

Dr. Bernd Welz

08:40

Keynote

Ann Rosenberg

08:50

Introduction

Prof. Dr. Klaus Turowski

09:00

Critical Success Factors of SaaS Based ERP Implementations – An Explorative Study Using SAP Business ByDesign as an Example

Harald Kienegger

09:30

A Conceptual Model of an ERP System for Cloud Application Service Providers

Johannes Hintsch

10:00

Understanding the Organizational Design of IT Risk Management

Manuel Wiesche

10:45

Business Simulations with SAP ERP

Bastian Kurbjuhn

11:15

The Vendor’s Perspective on Information Systems Project Risk

Konrad Dongus

11:45

Predicting Non–functional Properties of Service-Oriented IT System Landscapes

Sascha Bosse

13:15

IT-related Challenges in Corporate Divestitures: Towards a Reference Model for managing IT Carve-Outs